"This location didn't become bad yesterday," Craig said at a community anti-violence summit at Sacred Heat Church Community Center Tuesday evening. "It's been years. Years. Isn't that amazing? I mean what were we doing?"

Craig said followup visits are planned to the complex, it wasn't a staged event and "we'll becoming to a neighborhood near you very soon." Many of the nearly 100 in attendance clapped.

"We are not messing around," the chief said.

Craig rattled off crime statistics that he says indicate an across-the-board reduction in crimes since his arrival about four months ago.

Homicides are down 16 percent, the equivalent of about 39 fewer murders; overall violent crime is down 6 percent; robberies for the first time since Craig came to town are showing a year-to-date decline; and all crime, the combination of violent and property, is down 7 percent, the chief said.

"Every week, we focus in a laser-like way on those crimes that are being committed," Craig said. "It's working... but as we continue to drive down crime... the next step is I want to bring down the fear of crime in Detroit."

Last week's operation at the riverfront apartments was just the beginning.

"You think the one last week" was impressive, Craig said. "We've got a surprise coming."

The chief said the next action is named "Super 6," after Detroit Police Officer Patrick Hill who died Oct. 9 from injuries he suffered as a result of friendly fire during the attempted arrest of murder suspect on April 2. No. 6 is the jersey Hill wore while plating third base for the department baseball team.